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Monday, July 23, 2012

July 23rd

July 23 is the 205th day of the year.  There are 161 days remaining until the end of the year.




636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire and the Pope doesn’t like it.
1840 Union Act is passed by British Parliament, gay marryimg Upper and Lower Canada
1881 The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded.
1903 Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car
1904 Ice cream cone is created by Charles E Menches during Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition (St. Louis World’s Fair).  It will still be a few more decades before ice cream is fried.
1929 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said becomes the Big Booty Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
1976 Wings release "Let 'em In" honoring that anticipatory moment
1992 A Vatican commission of baby rapers and mutual masturbators, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.


1884 Emil Jannings, bisexual Swiss-born Asutrian actor/first one to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor  
1921 Calvert DeForest (Larry Bud Melman), maybe gay US personality/Letterman foil
1938 Goetz George, German actor  
1944 Pepe Serna, US actor  
1951 Edie McClurg, maybe gay US actress 
1961 Woody Harrelson, US actor/hemp advocate  
1965 Slash [Saul Hudson], English musician/Guns N Roses 
1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman, US actor  
1972 Marlon Wayans, US actor/writer/director  
1972 Roger Jose de Noronha da Silva, Brazilian soccer player/G Magazine model  
1973 Omar Epps, US actor  
1973 Nomar Garciaparra, US baseball player  
1974 Maurice Greene, US sprinter  
1980 Jamie Ellis, US bodybuilder/model/actor  
1982 Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor/Big Brother Pinoy housemate  
1987 Arthur Napiontek, US model/actor/ferret smuggler  
1987 Imanol Landeta, maybe gay Mexican actor/singer  
1989 Daniel Radcliffe, English actor/Harry Potter  


1885 Ulysses S Grant, Union General/18th US president, tries to cheer everybody up with novelty cash bearing his picture
1966 [Edward] Montgomery Clift, gay US actor (From Here to Eternity), finds his place in the sun
1997 Andrew Cunanan, deranged gay US killer (Gianni Versace), misses his boo



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